- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
- 'Crush racism' in football: PM
Community
MP gets his hands dirty for event
MP Mark Lancaster, recently joined BTCV on its Milton Keynes Railway Conservation project aimed at clearing spaces on the disused railways around the city.
Firefighters to take on London to Brighton challenge
Eight firefighters from all over Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes are to take part in the London to Brighton Challenge on May 12 and 13 in aid of The Fire Fighters Charity.
Woodland Trust receives 105 trees
The free Woodland Trust tree pack of 105 trees was received by Stony Stratford Town Council on January 31.
Record time at Olney Pancake Race video
THE annual Olney Pancake Race has been won in a record breaking time by an 18-year-old who was taking part in the event for the first time.
The green shoots of growth come to MK
THIS week saw the release of the latest national unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics.
Announcements
Kevin And Mo : Memorial
Published in the Milton Keynes Citizen on 22 February 2012
Ivy Elliott : Memorial
Published in the Milton Keynes Citizen on 21 February 2012
Catherine Fidler (Cathy) : Obituary
Published in the Milton Keynes Citizen on 21 February 2012
Herbert (Bert) Emson : Memorial
Published in the Milton Keynes Citizen on 16 February 2012
Effie Bateman : Memorial
Published in the Milton Keynes Citizen on 16 February 2012
Local Businesses
Success is in the bag for Charlotte
A MUM of two from Milton Keynes was so fed up with tiny handbags that she designed her own more practical model.
Carnival company puts its art into business training
AN arts company has launched a training service for firms.
Market trader avoids jail for JLS and Justin Bieber counterfeits
A MARKET trader has narrowly escaped jail after he was caught selling counterfeit clothing in Central Milton Keynes market.
Frances SNAPs into speaking action
A TOP woman after-dinner speaker will be helping a Milton Keynes charity raise vital funds.
Store’s revamp forecast to bring £10m back to the city
CONSTRUCTION work is due to start in weeks on a flagship development at a Milton Keynes shopping centre.
Charity Campaigns
Help Ken bring his boys home
KEN Spooner has faced more than three years without his children after they were abducted by their mother.
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Nostalgia
When scrap metal was vital to the war effort
MUCH as expected, many of the specimens involved in the current spate of metal theft appear to be the less finely honed implements in the tool box.
History of heretic who certainly wasn’t stuffy
AS a word, ‘history’ is probably a right turn off for many people, with connotations of boring dates and stuffy Kings and Queens.
Banking in Bletchley
EXCEPT as a Stringfellows’s talent scout, career wise I’ve never had much idea of what I’ve wanted to do.
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Weather for Milton Keynes
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 9 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: South west
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